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BU - CS 200 - CH 2 - Fundamentals of Systems Analysis
BU - CS 200 - CH 2 - Fundamentals of Systems Analysis and Design
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Computer Science
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10/17/2010

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What problems are solved at the individual level?
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A user may need a simple calculation program. For example, a professor may need a program to compute student course grades.
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What problems are solved at the intermediate level?
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At the intermediate level, the user may require a program which fulfills a major local function of a company, such as a manufacturing bill of materials processor.
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What problems are solved at the intermediate level?
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At the intermediate level, the user may require a program which fulfills a major local function of a company, such as a manufacturing bill of materials processor.
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What problems are solved at the enterprise level?
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At the enterprise level, the user may require an application which communicates interactively with a worldwide user base.
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What problems are solved at the global level?
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At the global level, the company may require communication with customers over the world-wide web.
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What do IT Directors and managers do?
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IT Director and Managers establish and maintain departmental and project calendars and budgets.
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What do business systems analysts do?
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Business System Analysts define and document the business requirements of the users.
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What do IT Systems Architects do?
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IT Systems Architects describe in high-level terms the hardware and software solutions of the proposed business application.
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What do Application Programmers do?
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Applications Programmers write the applications programs to fulfill the detailed application requirements.
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What is PERT?
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A scheduling technique, PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) was developed in 1957 under the auspices of the United States Navy.
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What is UML?
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Unified Modeling Language - used to specify and construct architectural blueprints of software.
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What is a use case?
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A use case is a description of a transaction that is part of a software design.
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What is a critical path?
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It is the longest path in a PERT chart, which describes the longest amount of time necessary to complete a series of sequential tasks necessary to make a program. If the critical path falls behind, the entire application design process falls behind.
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What are software libraries or repositories?
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This is where project documents and software code are stored.
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